What a weekend! Anthropic is now poised to sue the Pentagon, after being labeled a “supply chain risk,” while OpenAI has its own agreement allowing the agency to use OpenAI’s models in “classified environments.”There are still plenty of unanswered questions, including how big of a business risk being designated a “supply chain risk” poses for Anthropic (for more on that, see here). But what’s now become clear is that OpenAI’s... Read more ›
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Chinese AI developer MiniMax said Tuesday that its revenue more than doubled to $79 million last year, from about $30 million in 2024, driven by the growth of its Hailuo AI video generation app and other products. In its first earnings announcement since its initial public offering in January, ... Read more ›
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In January, when Apple announced an agreement to use Google’s Gemini models in Apple products, it was an admission that the iPhone maker hasn’t been able to compete in AI on its own over the past couple years. But the deal also showed that Apple is again relying on an outside company to help it with another deficiency: in cloud computing. Now there’s a chance Apple could deepen its cloud... Read more ›
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SpaceX is aiming to launch a new generation of satellites next year that will use the spectrum licenses it’s buying from EchoStar to offer a more powerful version of its direct-to-cell service, company executives said in a conference presentation on Monday. The new satellites, called Starlink ... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said late Saturday that the company’s recent agreement to supply the Pentagon with AI models would fall within the company’s own “redlines” limiting how it’s used in military situations, but he argued that it was appropriate the government—not the company—would have the ... Read more ›
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Nvidia is expected to announce a new chip later this month using technology from startup Groq, The Wall Street Journal reported late Friday. The chip is aimed at speeding up inference computing, the term for running AI on servers after AI models have been fully developed, the newspaper said. The ... Read more ›
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Before we get to the scheduled events for this coming week—Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, starring SpaceX, as well as Apple’s master class in hyping product releases—we should acknowledge just how much of a turn the AI debate has taken from humdrum concerns about spending. Friday night’s decision by the Trump administration to declare war on Anthropic, a day before it went to war with Iran, puts the spotlight on... Read more ›
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The biggest venture capital funds are getting even bigger. In the past three years, the top firms have raised billions of dollars—in some cases more than half the total amount they’ve raised in their lifetimes. Take Thrive Capital, which in February said it had raised $10 billion in new funds. The backer of OpenAI and Stripe has raised roughly $18 billion since 2023—about 70% of the money it’s taken in... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: What Anthropic’s Pentagon feud means across Silicon Valley• Artificial Intelligence: Otters, Minesweeper and Will Smith’s spaghetti dinner—the at-home tests for judging AI’s abilities• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Murder at the U,” “End of Days” and “How to Get to Heaven From Belfast”A couple days ago, a piece of science fiction caused a good amount of fuss, with Citrini Research’s “thought... Read more ›
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In 2022, Ethan Mollick, an AI researcher and University of Pennsylvania professor, found himself needing to amuse his daughter on a boring plane ride. For some help, he turned to what he knows best and began prompting Midjourney’s latest model to generate an image of an otter—his daughter’s favorite animal. Taking inspiration from their current predicament, he then asked the model to imagine the otter stuck on a plane. The... Read more ›
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A rapid escalation of a dispute between Anthropic and the Department of Defense over military use of its AI models has threatened to cut off Anthropic from wide swathes of its customers, after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moved to declare Anthropic a “supply chain risk” on Friday. But the government’s threat to bar military contractors from any commercial relationship with Anthropic—which presumably would include its massive cloud partners Amazon, Google... Read more ›
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday declared Anthropic a supply chain risk, an extraordinary sanction against an American company that is usually reserved for foreign adversaries. “Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military ... Read more ›
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Crypto venture firm Paradigm is raising as much as $1.5 billion for a new fund that will invest in broader tech including artificial intelligence and robotics, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the situation. The move comes as more crypto firms and investors are ... Read more ›
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OpenAI earlier this year fired an employee for trading on prediction markets using confidential company information in violation of company policies after an investigation, according to a spokesperson for the company. CEO of Applications Fidji Simo announced the termination to employees earlier ... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said on Friday afternoon that he was directing every U.S. federal agency to stop using Anthropic’s technology, further escalating a feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon over Anthropic’s refusal to drop its AI safeguards. Trump’s statement came an hour before a deadline ... Read more ›
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OpenAI expects to raise an additional $10 billion from financial investors by the end of March, adding to the $110 billion it’s secured from SoftBank, Amazon and Nvidia, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. That additional funding will bring OpenAI’s post-investment valuation ... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s wide-ranging partnership with Amazon, announced on Friday as part of a bigger series of funding agreements valuing the company at $730 billion before the investment, means the ChatGPT creator will soon have two of the three biggest cloud firms pitching its services. But can both Amazon and Microsoft get a big boost without encroaching on each other’s territory? Then there’s the impact on Nvidia, which is putting in $30... Read more ›
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The conflict between Anthropic and the Department of Defense over how the Pentagon can use the startup’s AI has turned into a standoff. The agency has given the company a Friday evening deadline to give it unfettered access to its technology—or else be cut off from working with military contractors. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei continues to refuse to do so. “Threats do not change our position,” he wrote in a... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s agreement with Amazon, announced on Friday, means that it will build applications that will be exclusively available on Amazon’s cloud platform after previously offering most of its products on Microsoft’s Azure cloud. OpenAI and Amazon will work together on new AI agent products, and ... Read more ›
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OpenAI said Friday it had secured $110 billion in new investment at a valuation of $730 billion before the new money, largely from existing investor SoftBank as well as two tech companies— Amazon and Nvidia—with which it announced commercial partnerships. SoftBank and Nvidia will each invest $30 ... Read more ›
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